Read aloud the book "Little Bean by the Window" by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a famous Japanese writer and famous TV host, on the audio platform. When reading the energetic sentences in the article, the corners of your mouth will rise unconsciously. I secretly think that people who love life will definitely like Xiaodoudou. Her innocence and cuteness make people envious.
Little Doudou’s innocence has been preserved so well because she has been growing up in an environment full of love. Families, even elementary schools. In today's era of increasingly serious educational anxiety, revisiting Xiao Doudou's growth, especially the primary school education she received, really brings envy, jealousy, and hatred into my heart.
Good teachers and helpful friends are the good luck that everyone can encounter in life. Xiao Doudou, a somewhat naughty child, is lucky to have such a special luck - his mentor, Mr. Sosaku Kobayashi. Although the time they spent together was not too long, Mr. Xiaolin influenced Xiao Doudou's growth throughout his life.
Xiao Doudou is an innocent, kind-hearted and a bit naughty little girl. In ordinary schools, teachers cannot stand her undiscipline. Xiao Doudou also felt faintly excluded because she was always punished by the teacher to stand outside the classroom. She just entered the first grade and didn't understand why she couldn't talk to the swallows under the eaves or the promotional artists outside the window during class...
In the end, Xiaodoudou was dismissed from the school.
Fortunately, Xiaodoudou has a pair of very liberal parents. Her mother didn’t even tell Xiaodoudou the truth about her expulsion from school. Even more fortunately, Xiaodoudou met Ba Xueyuan.
The gate of this special school is two big trees, and the classroom is an abandoned tram car. The students in the classroom can decide their own seats every day, and they can decide their own daily study plan. If you finish the day's study tasks early, you can use your free time for walking, climbing trees, and free activities...
This is really a school that every child longs for! If children had the right to choose, I believe Ba Academy would be overcrowded! Unfortunately, the love in the eyes of children is often different from the eyes of adults. Therefore, there are only more than fifty students in the entire Ba Academy a day, including several children with physical disabilities.
The principal, Mr. Sosaku Kobayashi, is a very caring educator. Ba Academy was founded by him after many visits to Europe for study and study. When he first met Xiaodoudou, he talked with her for four hours. Xiaodoudou herself said that in her life, the only adult who had the patience to chat with a child was Principal Xiao Lin.
Under the leadership of Principal Xiao Lin, Ba Academy has given children full care and respect.
In the school there is Taiming, a polio patient whose hands and feet are deformed; Takahashi, a patient with dwarfism who can no longer grow taller. In order to allow the children to openly accept each other's differences, all the children were naked when swimming. Principal Xiaolin wants to tell the children: No matter what kind of body, it is beautiful.
The sports meeting of Ba Academy is also unique and different. Each project is designed together by Principal Xiaolin and teachers.
There are projects for children and parents to complete together. The children drew a note with the parent's name and went to the auditorium to find the parent. For example, they shouted "Xiao Doudou's mother", and then the two of them ran to the finish line hand in hand; there were also events that combined drilling, climbing and jumping. The short stature of Mr. Takahashi has allowed him to win championships in many events.
The prizes at the sports games are even more unique, they are a variety of vegetables. The principal encouraged the children to take the dishes home and ask their mothers to make delicious dishes. The family members discussed the sports meeting while eating, and experienced the sweet taste of the fruits of their hard work.
Because there are only about fifty students in each grade of Ba Academy, many school activities are held together by everyone, which makes the relationship between all the children very harmonious and close.
We all took a train to travel to a seaside hot spring and stayed in a large villa owned by a classmate. The children soaked in hot springs together every day, explored together, and bought and cooked food together.
Everyone went to have a picnic by the waterfall. Each group had senior and junior students. They divided their work and cooperated with each other. They started the stove and buried the pot, cut vegetables and cooked by themselves. After preparing the meal, all the students sat together and tasted the fruits of each other's labor.
We also spent time together in the school field, learning from the farmer uncle how to tend the crops and plant rice.
In these lively and interesting group activities, children not only learned various skills in real life, but also learned how to divide labor and cooperate with each other, and also learned to take care of each other during group activities.
Principal Xiaolin will not give too many empty lectures to the children. He likes to put everything into practical activities and let the children learn and experience on their own.
Children in Ba Academy will listen to music and do aerobics, and choreograph their own movements to match the music. The children named the notes, drew the notes they heard with chalk on the auditorium floor, and cleaned the floor together at the end of the lesson.
Each child can claim one of the trees around the campus. In their spare time, children can climb up their own trees to meditate and play. When going to another classmate's tree, he will say hello first and ask for permission from the owner.
Principal Xiaolin asked parents to let their children wear their own old clothes to school, so that the children can climb trees and drill fences as much as they want during their free time, completely liberating the children's nature. , act without any worries.
In the seemingly disorganized, loose and free educational atmosphere of Ba Academy, Xiao Doudou, a child who cannot integrate into the rules of other schools, is a bit of a "weird" child in the eyes of others. Gradually, he happily turned into a responsible, kind and warm child. She gets along well with her teachers and classmates, and likes to help and care about others. And I am becoming more and more knowledgeable and polite.
Little Doudou’s time in Ba Academy was just before the end of World War II. It's a pity that Ba Academy was destroyed by the war before she graduated from elementary school.
But the happy time of studying and growing up in Ba Academy has always lingered in Xiaodoudou’s mind. After she grew up and became a famous host in Japan, she wrote about her days at Tomoe Academy. Unexpectedly, when the book was published, it caused a great response not only in Japan but also around the world. The book has been translated into 33 languages ??and introduced to all over the world. While everyone was moved and laughed by the story of Xiao Doudou, it also introduced new thinking on modern education.
In 1984, after reading the English version of "Little Doudou by the Window", United Nations officials believed that "no one knows children better than her", so they appointed Xiaodoudou, the author of this book. The author, Ms. Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, is the first goodwill ambassador in the history of UNICEF Asia.
In her childhood, Xiao Doudou was always respected and cared for by her parents, cared for and guided by Principal Xiaolin, and warmly accepted by her classmates in Ba Academy. Her innocence, innocence, self-esteem and self-confidence were not destroyed. This allowed her to grow into a warm and loving person. So after growing up, she deeply realized all this and was full of gratitude to Mr. Xiaolin!
At the same time, Xiaodoudou also used his own personal experience to prove what a child who grows up in warm and brilliant love will be like.
Although it has been more than half a century since Xiaodoudou grew up, and the global education situation has also changed a lot, some things will not change, such as respect for children, loving listening, companionship and guide. The foundation of education is far from just the transfer of knowledge. Education should be all-encompassing and colorful. The ultimate goal of education is to cultivate wise, warm and healthy people! All of this can only be achieved through education that is warm and full of love.